The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-09-30
TIE LAST OF HARRY HILLS.
A FAMOUS RESORT HHOSE GLORY AND
PROFITS HtTE DEPARTED

A FAMOUS RESORT HHOSE GLORY AND
PROFITS HAZE DEPAR7ED.
Harry Hin Gives Up his FIGHT with the 70.
lice aud VIII Close the Doors OF his Dance
House md Theatre In Houston Street
Harry Hill will close his place, whore he
has been thirty-throe years. tomorrow night,
and the gilded wings Of the hugo wooden eagle
above tho dome OF his saloon ut Crosby
and Houston streets cleaned last night in tho
powerful light from the globe-covered gas jcts
and the big lamps on the outside OF the build
Ing. Within everything was drear The bar
room on the first floor was quito deserted.
The throng that In times past made II anything
but easy going up the narrow stairway to the
late theatre and dancing floor was gone. The
time-worn sign above tho stairway reading,
Lovers not appreciated hero and therefore
not wanted" Was q mockery In more
senses than one. Half u dozen young
women. all OF them plump and more or
less heavy-eyed whose long acquaintance with
the place made 1t sort OF home to them, II
silvor-haired Wall street man, n Boston OIL
cial with party of friends" and Harry
Hill seemed lonesome in the place. The
specialized waiter behind his lunch coun-
ter Of hams and salads and the
dispenser Of Temperance drinks only"
were idle. The tattes around which some OF
the pretty and trail girls OF New York have
clustered wero deserted. and the jinging piano
on the stage that has been tho fountain OF
many of New York's best ballads WIS closed
and covered with shabby green cloth.
The drop curtain on the little stage was
up. and showed dingy painting of the Harry
Hills OF 1854. Even the sti'n & Of hams hang
ing from tho raftcrs looked lonesome. The
thousands from Maine to California who have
seen the resort on its halcyon nights would
scarcely have known tho familiar place from
its worry drcarlncss.
Harry Hill. with his clenr-cut features look
ing rather careworn. still wearing in his shirt
front the familiar G" composed of big da-
monds. and his cablo-ink watch chain,
eat with tho Wall street men, at one
Of tho :, tables. =, He brushed the scant
T sk .om hs bn{ Ss d
tendent Murray in the afternoon to announce
that he was going to close his place tomorrow
:. I'm done fighting the police, he said.
knocked NE out and isld
which can't get after Recorder smyth has
tiary II l ever came before him again:
from the police before io succumbei. There
snss BEEN EHcss Bos reas s " t
e. so Sss s$s
were found against him, on two Of which he
paid a fine Of $3.50 each. 1t was when he paid
the second Ia ips that Kssorder Slnyth tea him
rested again. Hill might have stood the loss OF
his LIQUOR business; but It was the taking away
Knocked him out. Hisciistomers we're content
to drink his temperance liquids as long as
when the music was sh ut down on the eaperi-
ment OF running the place as dairy proved a
-" don't know what I'll do" resumed Harry;
won't go West: New York's good enough for
times it was packed. as have seen it."
Nearly all the leading sdl1 variety and specially
ss and nory Sfr the s 9n
yo6n j. Isuiliyans frst sparrins match IN
with sieve Taylor for $50. Some Of the variety ty
actors who graduated, from that stage, were
Gus Bruno, trierney and Cronin Deohanty and
Hengler. and Jim Campbell the stage mana
ger for fifteen years. was writer OF sketches
nous stake holder. He held the Sullivan Ryan
stage Of his little theatre. he pointed with
pride to these time worn signs and texts, which
cover Tho dingy walls Of the place:
Remains fool his whole life long.
Ssx Sr Ry no sake sna o h hut M
tissIEaul to fmo.hy chap '. ~ 'I'''' 'a''' m
ready o snd e n s BE-
h 9% a%s .s sSs n' and rsm his
There's u sign that hundreds of thousands
will remember" he said. pointing to this
Gentlemen e. Fl, q; a. a, your x ease, n...
Free 70 pay Tor what You drink
ETeet IN At n hDur or an
When uneasy, free to go
IrGsane and obscene language positively prohibited.
ed upon" he added, No vulgar songs
stage
ssw owen EVEN an hat The W Sotor
was inclined to vulSarty. have dismissed
them on the snot for trying to hamboozle mo.
tempting to cheat customers"
As no finished his remin iscences no handed
this slip. written by typewriter to the reporter.
Any one who knows Harry nIIl knows that for the
S G the
S1s n hfpS5"Sy
stain on it.
There is no danger Mat Harry will sarys
n BGy I MI shR nG ss Of NsS 2S n Ne
Of cattle, horses. and chickens, dicks. hens, and
MOUNDS. HIS Saloon III DToHuWiy near fOuS-
ton street, called The Caricature," because
Of its gallery OF ludicrous pictures Of famous
up for the loss OF. tho Houston street
place and. he finally, SOLD, it last week
to Nash Y Jacob; The Houston street
II the future owner. George Williams a down
town man, can get II license. Harry has a ten
years. lease of the property. which Is built on
land belonging to 7. I. Barnum.
ALL 60 INTO RETIREMENT